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michael burlingame, holder of the distinguished chair in lincoln studies at the university of illinois-springfield, was born in washington, d.c. and raised in nearby arlington. his first book, the inner world of abraham lincoln, was written in 1994. he's written over a dozen books including one of the five best books of the year by the atlantic. this october pegasus books will release his study, "the black man's president: abraham lin on the, frederick douglass and the quest for racial justice." now let's hear from michael burlingame. thank you for joining us today. >> before i begin my remarks, i would like to thank the archives for letting me participate in this series. over the years i've spent many ours in the archives conducting lincoln research, and this is relevant for the book i'm talking about today within the records of the committee on -- [inaudible] there's a great deal of information about how -- was done at the white house indicating that it was not always above board, and it was was -- see official documents about what was really going on. so i'm very grateful to the archives for su

published this book here to address you as my friend african americans letters to abraham lincoln with the university of north carolina, press i did the letters as one book and then i wanted to write a narrative history with the conversations. and so i took all of those and then turned it into a house built by slaves so you got two books two books that very much. i got it together out of it. that's yeah, you need both shelf. all right, so we are going to dive in to a detailed discussion of a house built by slaves in just a moment folks. but first i first i want to talk about something that happened to this week. it happened yesterday. and that is the annual announcement of the gilder larman lincoln prize and we are gonna bring that up here today because john has a particular interest in that prize. first of all the winner of the prize. i'm gonna share this with you right now is the book is ends of war the unfinished fight of lee's army after appomattox, and the prize winner is dr. caroline e janie and the author of ends of war and there you see a picture of the desk jacket caroline. janey was on this

how i wrote how i came to be invited to write a book as part of the concise lincoln library of the southern illinois university press they didn't say that i couldn't mention this, but i just got an email from them out of the blue and they said hey, we want you to write a book about lincoln and civil rights. they knew i taught courses on racing quality frederick douglass that sort of thing and they thought oh, you would be a good person to contribute this book and i said, you know, that's not it's kind of an acronistic to look at lincoln in this way about being a champion of civil rights the way we understand them today. and so i said, well, you know, i was a little audacious and i said, i don't want to write a book about making this whole writes. how lincoln in the founding? and they said oh, that sounds great. but then they said this is the part. i probably shouldn't share they said what do you mean by the founding so oh, i forgot this is being taped but whatever. i went on to explain that you know, the founding means not just the constitution for lincoln. it meant the declaration a precisely because we can't

lincoln's own hand. two of the copies are at the library of congress. those the two drafts he had written prior to delivering the address. another four that he wrote post address. is that university. another is in the white house, in the lincoln room. and then the other one is the everett copy. and that at our museum and library in springfield, illinois. the our copy of the address was written after. it was the one that was written immediately his delivery of it. and he was requested write it out by edward everett, who was keynote speaker at on that day. and as we probably all remember, he spoke for about two and a half hours to two and a half minutes. everett asked president lincoln to write it out so that he could put it in a book for to auction off for convalescing soldiers, which lincoln gladly obliged him. when a document is as famous and revered as the gettysburg address, it does seem like putting it on display should be enough. but we came up with the idea of a 272 word challenge. you know, the 272 words is the exact number in the gettysburg address. and while lincoln didn't set out to. 272 words, he didn't say, well now, today i'm going to write a 272 word masterpiece tha

lincoln's speeches and the american idea. michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. he's the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of abraham lincoln and the two volume american abraham lincoln a life as well as his new book, which he'll be discussing tonight. the black man's president abraham lincoln african americans and the pursuit of racial equality. noah. feldman is the felix frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the julis rabinowitz program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he's the author of nine books including the three lives of james madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincoln's slavery and the re-founding of america diana. shall is professor of political science at loyola university, maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where she focuses on american political thought and history. she is the author of several books includin

nebraska-omaha, she earned her doctorates in administration curriculum and instructions from the university of nebraska-lincoln, concentrating on the variation of peoples' ability to create mental images and the effect this has on learning with someone who struggled with math, reading, she believes her ability to create mental images at that age walz the cause of her struggles. her conclusion was to echance the five senses by using art and learning herrell meantry teachings to better help students learn. for the last nearly 40 years, debbie has consistently given back to the community. just a few of her accolades include elementary educator of the year, president-elect and president of the nebraska art teachers association, and the nebraska art team offers roscoe shield as i ward for her continued srve -- shields award for her continued service to arts education. she also participated in the writing of thousands of dollars in grant money for the arts. as a now retired educator, debbie continues to promote the arts by her work the congressional art competition for the nebraska congressional districts. founded i

lincoln is arguing that secession is illegal if a state leaves the union it fundamentally violates the constitution it is unconstitutional to secede. this is not universally accepted but it's an argument lincoln is making based on the idea that democracy cannot exist without majority rule and if the united states is a democracy, which is up for debate, right if the united states is a democracy if people secede then you no longer have a union you no longer have majority rule. this is the argument that lincoln is making but lincoln who believed slavery was wrong who was antislavery not an abolitionist, but antislavery. the constitution contained support and protection for the institution of slavery in the slaveholding states something he could not do do anything about under the constitution. lincoln's view was that the union itself must be protected. he was interested in the idea of compromise. i don't know if my computer just went to sleep. there we go. he was interested in the idea of compromise. he believed that compromise was essential to the union. he had been a supporter of the missouri compromise. he believed in constitutional approaches. so it's eve

jo meacham, he is rogers chair in the american presidency in vanderbilt university an author and then there wa light. abraham lincolne. john, i am so happy that you are here to put all of this in perspective. what is the historic significance of today? >> it was the first time in tw and a half centuries where i american president has a bee held accountable for this kind of criminal behavior i think there is, as ever, i america a couple of ways t look at it the former president would lik us to see this as a new episode, or even a new season in hi long running reality show in which he is the star, the chie beneficiary. but his reality show is realit for american democracy and i think the way to look at this is it is yet a anothe tangible, tactile, undeniabl reminder that we are livin through the most extraordinary test of democratic citizenship since the 18 50s to me, the way to break this i to be out the ballot box it is going to be just enoug of us deciding that, in fact the constitutional order i more important than any single personality. >> then do you see today as or a legal proceeding >> no, i see it as legal b

university i thought something is happening here. what it is isn't clear. that all of that literature about racism. obama is a second abraham lincoln, he will be on mount rushmore, a lot of people were just pissed off, pardon my french, about having a black family in the white house and it went deeper than that and you saw the most counterintuitive thing happened, donald trump succeeding barack obama in the white house, in part because of the all white rollback. the challenges a black person in the white house represented. it was reconstruction redux, the rollback to reconstruction redux. to change the sequence of my films, pbs, the treatment of reconstruction. it is america's second founding. remember lincoln's new birth of freedom, the passage of the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth amendments, on december 6th, 1865, the thirteenth amendment, in a brilliant documentary, is the thirteenth amendment ended slavery. in 1860 there were 3.9 million enslaved african americans, maybe 5000 gained their freedom through the emancipation proclamation. to be 3 coming it only applied to the confederate states and an enslaved person hits get b

she's a student at the university of lincoln, but delivers food part time.se, can you just come and stand inside my hallway for a bit?" only two weeks later on that same street, probably a group of like 25 year olds, and they were knocking on my car windows. immediately locked my doors. they were just saying, "you better have more food for us in there," trying to open my car door. so at that point it was just trying to get out of there as soon as possible. she started recording the incidents on a police website. if you write down places that you feel unsafe or if you have an incident happen to you, try and make note of where it's happened and then you can input it into street safe anonymously. by speaking to us today, she hopes to educate those subjecting her to abuse. what they would consider banter or a joke to them, it's still really scary. it's still harassment, especially when it's always a group and i'm just by myself. leanne brown, bbc news. we're joined now by andy prendergast from the gmb union. thank you very much for your time this morning. this i

lincoln belmont 'y' was michelle robinson's brother, craig robinson. i met barack and michelle when he was a state senator and i think she was working at the university ofhicago. i had known them for a long time. i knew what terrific individuals they were. when barack decided he was going to run for the presidency, he contacted me in 2006 and said, would you help me? would you become my national finance chair? would you raise the money for me to run for president? i thought this was a crazy idea. i had never raised money on a national level for a presidential campaign. i had no idea how anyone did that. he said, no, no, i want you to do this role. and i did, but i really almost said no. what happened was i was sitting, talking to my husband after the evening that barack had asked me. he said to me, this is destiny knocking on the door of our nation and you've got to find a way to help. so, that led me to get involved in barack's campaign. i was the 11th person in the campaign. over the ensuing two years, we built the equivalent of a fortune 500 company. we went from 11 people to 3000 people that we were paying and thousands of volunteers. we raised the

lincoln prize. and finally jim martin is professor of history emeritus at marquette university in milwaukee, wisconsin, and the author editor or co-editor of over 20 books including most recently buying and selling civil war memory in gilded age america, which he co-edited with carrie janey and was published in 2021 by the university of georgia press. you may wonder why we titled this panel buying and selling the civil war. what does that mean part of what we're doing here is trying to sell this book. not to bring it too closely to market considerations, but the big questions of this book that that carrie and jim have edited that amanda has contributed an sa2 and i think there are 15 essays in total each essay gives readers a different vantage point onow the memory of the civi war intersected with associatio with the market economy in the period after the civil war andefore 1900. it's a book replete as you will see with fascinatingmages. and we're going to use some of those image as kind of pmpts for our for our discussion, but wh we'd like to the questions we'd like to answer for you includ the ones

joined by sam richardson from the consumer organisation, witch, and a senior lecturer at the university of lincoln it. there is good advice. emma, we are talking a _ to ask for it. there is good advice. emma, we are talking a lot - to ask for it. there is good advice. emma, we are talking a lot about| emma, we are talking a lot about bills today, and will be talking about more bills in a moment. but there are other changes and lack of changes to the tax system?- changes to the tax system? you're absolutely right. _ changes to the tax system? you're absolutely right. as _ changes to the tax system? you're absolutely right. as we _ changes to the tax system? you're absolutely right. as we enter - changes to the tax system? you're absolutely right. as we enter the l absolutely right. as we enter the new tax — absolutely right. as we enter the new tax year. _ absolutely right. as we enter the new tax year, we _ absolutely right. as we enter the new tax year, we are _ absolutely right. as we enter the new tax year, we are seeing - absolutely right. as we enter the new tax year, we are seeing thatj new

lincoln signed the moral act. establishing the structure of the modern us public university through land grants. the moral act was another aspect of continental imperialism. by opening university education to small property owners the act deep in the class collaboration that has shaped settler colonialism. in the analysis of gerald horn by organizing higher education around modern disciplines producing graduates and engineering accounting administration and management. the university's produced by the act would train in educate the cadre of corporations and a rapidly modernizing and expanding state. the political economy of our own era of crisis continues to operate within the constraint set in place by land grants to corporations and universities over these two days in 1862. at the end of the year on december 26th the us executed 38 dakota prisoners in what remains the largest official mass execution in us history. in historical context of the railway act in the land-grant act the mass execution was another kind of assertion of land-based power. involve the transition in relating to north ameri

david reynolds distinguish professor of the university of new york and is the author or editor of 16 books including his current biography eight, abraham lincoln in his time this book has received numerous accolades including at this year's favorite and abraham lincoln institute book award like a price of the gilded society is also among the wall street journal top ten books of the year in his previous award-winning books included walt whitman's america, and john brown abolitionist and professor reynolds is a regular reviewer for the wall street journal, the new york times book review, in new york review of books printed speaking today on lincoln and popular culture, we welcome david reynolds to the program. >> thank you very much and is great to be here at the 2021 symposium to speak on lincoln in popular culture. in order think institute for recognizing my book with issues book award. it means a lot to me to be recognized on this very special group. the lincoln and the scholars, my book aim tells the story of the cross between lincoln and surrounding culture and lincoln was responsive to the spirit of the hour and his responsiveness fostered

is chandra manning, a professor at university where she teaches history chiefly the 19th century, including classes on the civil war, slavery and emancipation, lincoln citizenship, the american revolution and the history of baseball. began teaching at georgetown in 2005. took leave to work at the radcliffe institute for advanced study at harvard, and then returned to full time in the fall of 2017. first book what this cruel war. it's cruel wars over soldiers and the civil war, published by caernarfon, 27, won the aerial craven prize awarded by the organizing of american historians. here, an mention for the lincoln prize and the virginia awards for nonfiction and was a finalist for the jefferson davis prize and the frederick douglass prize. her second book, troubled refuge struggling for freedom in the civil war, also published by enough in 2016 about civil refugee camps where former slaves allied with the union army altered the course of the war and of emancipation. this one, the jefferson davis prize, awarded by the american civil war museum for the best book on the civil war. a former park service ranger, she is also advised historical museums and